Not to throw water on what the one woman is saying about partners, but partners totally do get to come back for abortions. They don’t get to be there for the entire counseling process because you want to be sure that a woman is there of her own free will and is alright with him joining her in the procedure room, of…

I feel you. Basically the same story re: catching on to fitness after high school, and it’s like I can’t stop injuring myself. If it’s not one thing it’s another. My knee, my ankle, my foot, my hip... I don’t know what’s wrong with me. Did I cause this by not exercising enough when I was younger? Do other people…

Learning to cook is almost traumatic. My mother never allowed us in the kitchen at home because she felt like it was too much of a mess. Then in college I never lived in a situation where cooking my own food was a necessity, so I never learned then, either. Then in the “real world” I spent way more money eating out…

According to their website they have like 200+ varieties of imported cereal from all over the world, 30 varieties of milk, and some numerous topping options. It’s a cute concept. People go to specialized candy stores for exotic items. Why not cereals?

In medicine your stethoscope is more than equipment... It’s like this weird extension of you and your identity. That first stethoscope is this precious symbol of your vocation. I can’t even express how weird people are about stethoscopes. You get them engraved.

I don’t know what it is. When I was younger heroin was just something we heard about in old movies, and now when I call home I hear stories about so many people I went to school with dying of overdoses. It’s just tragic.

People get really weird about wage compression.

I find taunting fathers by having sex with their daughters to be exemplary of the worst mysoginst mindsets. Women are objects that men trade between them, and they lose value somehow when other people have sex with them.

I mean, personally I find women to be less strict in their expectations of other women. You can do whatever makes you happy when you’re dating women, but men will sit around and opine in the most clueless and offensive ways about what kinds of things demonstrate to them lack of effort on the part of women or “poor…

People should totally look into altruistic kidney donation! Operation-wise it’s safer than childbirth, and you’re totally good to go with one kidney and at the top of the transplant list if your remaining kidney ever bites the dust down the road. Your donation can set off a chain reaction of donations (the matching…

At first I misread the headlines and thought Snooki herself was on AM, and I thought that if the only real woman on Ashley Madison was Snooki, that would confirm my feelings about that website.

Do those haircuts mean we now allow women to get buzz cuts? Because when I wore a uniform we were told it could be short but had to remain “feminine”. That was some bullshit. I want buzzcuts to become a standard so that I never have to comb my hair again.

Oh good, because student life as done some disgusting things to me. One of them is that sometimes I fall asleep with coffee still beside me, wake up the next morning, roll over and start drinking it.

I have friends who prefer “Indian” because they feel the term Native American normalizes colonialism by including them in a nation that invaded them. They get lectured by white people and even going children in why the “correct” thing to call themselves is Native American.

I understand your reaction, but that disclaimer was entirely serious. She did an amazing thing standing up to superiors and corporate interests, and the outcomes of her resistance are a wonderful thing.

Thank you! This is the cool stuff history is made off. When I was trying to look up this kind of account (what made her suspicious, what kinds of things were people reporting at the time) my search was getting really clogged with a lot of people writing in hindsight. There’s so much writing on thalidomide that it can…

Perfect! Thank you!

So I don’t want to downplay what this woman did, but my understanding has always been that more extensive animal testing would never have demonstrated the harmful effects of thalidomide. Every other species we’ve tested it on, including other primates, can tolerate incredibly high doses relative to the miniscule dose…

Aw man. My husband and I wanted to make a group volunteer event part of our wedding party activites the week of the wedding and there was a REVOLT. People were incredibly unhappy about the idea of donating food to the local food bank and spending a few hours packing it. Heaven forbid we had incorporated that into the…

Do we have any speculation about whether or not these benefits extend to long term methods like Mirena, Nexplanon, or Depo? While I see many women continuing to take pills, younger women seem to be skipping straight to LARCs these days (easier to hide from parents, less user error, etc).